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Abkarovits, Endre: Contradictions in Describing and Using the -ing Form as Object. (Complement)

- 132d = besides the gerund, object + to be /to hav

e are also found sometimes after the verb A = if a gerund is used, it can be preceded either by the possessive pronoun or the accusative of the personal pronoun (the common or genitive case of the noun) B = only the possessive / genitive is accaptable before the gerund) (The table contains the possible infinitive constructions only if the use of the gerund is indicated by the book concerned.) Comments on the table In spite of the varying lists it is clear that in the case of most verbs there is an agreement among the different books as far as the valency of the verbs is concerned. We can draw certain conclusions from the number in which these verbs turn up in the various dictionaries and the lists of grammar- and practice books. Those with the highest freguency could be recommended for teaching at schools especially. Books on usage, parctice, and sometimes eveo grammar books do not go into details, they do not try to inform the student of all the possible patterns in which a given verb can be used. It is guite natural for books like 'Living English Structure' to do so and it is only logical that 'An Advanced English Practice' contains longer lists. What is surprising is that even such a bulky grammar book as GCE does not attribute too much attention to the problem and its list is far shorter thao that of Graver. I am not guite satisfied with the way the issue is treated by such widely-read grammarians as Zandvoort or Thomson and Martinet. Scheuerweghs offers us no lists, but his rich collection of examples is really valuable. Among the dictionaries it is understandable that 'Longman's Lexicon of Contemporary English' is represented by less items in the list as it is based on groups of synonyms, and it may not be easy to force each verb into some group. In other respects there is much agreement between the two Longman dictionaries, though 'Longman's Dictionary of Cootemporary English" is of course more detailed as far as more rarely used verbs are concerned. These dictionaries have a system of denoting verb patterns, but this system or its application is not always